The female owner of a New Jersey tire store has a viable quid-pro-quo sexual harassment claim concerning her allegations that a male manager of a rental-equipment store customer withheld business…
Attorneys for Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. are sharpening their legal weapons as they prepare for a federal court battle over an asserted $1 billion in damages over thousands of…
The stunning news that a former White House lawyer and Xerox Corp. general counsel had been charged with attempting to murder his wife this week in an alleged out-of-control rage…
A longtime suspect in the 1982 deaths of seven people in the Chicago area who ingested cyanide-laced Tylenol has turned over a DNA sample in response to an order to…
The Federal Communications Commission was on the hot seat today in a much-watched appellate court case implicating the agency’s power to regulate the Internet.
As the mortgage meltdown and credit crisis eased, the number of federal securities class actions filed in 2009 over alleged stock fraud dropped sharply, compared both to the previous year…
When Art Block gave up a partnership at Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen in 1988 to become the No. 2 attorney in a three-person corporate legal department, his friends told…
Upholding a small company’s stunning patent-infringement win against the world’s biggest software seller, a federal appeals court today not only upheld a $290 million verdict in favor of I4i LP…
Contending Dechert issued a “false” opinion letter used by then-practicing attorney Marc Dreier to defraud Fortress Investment Group, the private equity and hedge fund firm sued the legal partnership today…
Applauding the introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives yesterday that would restrict federal agencies from pressuring organizations and their employees to waive legal protections when they are…
Responding to a Pennsylvania malpractice suit contending that a major law firm should have detected an alleged fraud by executives during its internal investigation of a now-bankrupt beverage maker, K&L…
Granting a motion filed by insurer Lloyd’s of London, a federal judge in Dallas today found billionaire and accused swindler R. Allen Stanford and his counsel in contempt.
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